1. Products
  2. Compendium

Carbon fibre bodywork

Words:
Jan-Carlos Kucharek

Cladding adds high-tech look

Architect Bond Bryan has given Sheffield University’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) a high tech look, using over 1800m2 of Rodeca’s 40mm PC 2540-4 wall panels as rainscreen cladding and internal skin. The striking block, used to train young engineers for the energy and aerospace sectors and even Formula One, has been nicknamed ‘The Iceberg’ by students. The outer Bi-Colour Opal/ Kristall polycarbonate panels on its aluminium support grid have 20-year UV protection, are 200 times tougher than glass and allow up to 66% light transmission. And U-values of 0.36W/m2K cut energy loss by up to 80%. 

Latest

Dessau’s Torten Estate featured in an influential lecture and exhibition concentrating on the housing crisis, given by Walter Gropius just before left the UK for America

Solving the housing problem was top of Walter Gropius’ concerns

In the run-up to the election Andrew Forth, RIBA’s head of policy and public affairs, explains how the RIBA’s manifesto lobbies politicians to create a built environment that is ‘safer, better and more sustainable’

Head of policy and public affairs at the RIBA, Andrew Forth, on the key points

The architect’s vision for Lower Giles Farm house near Bolton got diluted by the client's self-build, but the dilemmas resonate with many

Manchester meets moorland at cantilevered Paragraph 55 home near Bolton

There’s no doubt that Banister Fletcher’s tome is all the better for its heavy revision, but the reduced role of its drawings hurts

Welcome repositioning is at cost of drawings

Lessans House by McGonigle McGrath Architects shows you don’t need a big budget to achieve excellence

You don’t need a big budget to achieve excellence